ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track

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ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track
New for ICDAR 2019

For the first time, ICDAR 2019 is opening a journal track that will offer the benefit of the rapid turnaround and dissemination times of a conference while providing the paper length, scientific rigor, and careful review process of an archival journal. The ICDAR-IJDAR journal track invites high-quality submissions that present original work in the areas of Document Analysis and Recognition appropriate to both the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) and the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR, IF: 1.298). Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of IJDAR and will receive an oral presentation slot at the ICDAR 2019 conference.

Journal versions of previously published conference papers or survey papers will not be considered for this special issue. Such submissions can be submitted as journal-only papers via the regular IJDAR procedures.
Authors who submit their work to the journal track commit themselves to present their results at the ICDAR conference in case of acceptance. Springer-Nature, the publisher of IJDAR, will make the papers accepted for the journal track freely available in a time frame of four weeks around the conference, beyond being available in the archival journal.

  • Format:
    Papers submitted to the journal track should follow the format of IJDAR submissions and all of the standard guidelines.
  • Procedure and deadlines
    While we are able to permit a somewhat “soft” deadline for submissions of papers to the IJDAR-ICDAR journal track, it must be understood by all authors that the full journal review process will be required for all such submissions — there is no “short cut.” Papers that are submitted later run the risk of the review process not completing in time. In such cases, authors should know that:(1) The submitted paper can still continue under review as an IJDAR paper.(2) The authors always have the option of preparing a shorter version of the paper to submit via the regular ICDAR process.

    Questions regarding the status of a paper that is under review for the IJDAR-ICDAR journal track should be directed to the Journal Editorial Office by using the Editorial Manager tools. The guest editors have full authority to determine that the journal review process will not complete in time, and to decline submissions that arrive too late. In which case they will immediately notify the authors who can decide to leave the paper in the standard journal reviewing system or withdraw the manuscript from the journal.

    We expect that the following schedule applies to the papers submitted by November 15th:

    Nov. 15, 2018: Initial submission deadline
    Jan. 15, 2019: Initial decisions (accept, minor/major revision, reject)
    Feb. 15, 2019: ICDAR regular paper submission deadline
    Apr. 15, 2019: Submission deadline of the revised version of IJDAR papers.
    May 30, 2019: Final decisions (accept to journal track, or move to journal-only process).

    For papers submitted by November 30 (next submission deadline) the initial decision will be shifted accordingly therefore reducing the time given to authors to modify the paper according to reviewers’ comments:

    Nov. 30, 2018: Initial submission deadline
    Jan. 30, 2019: Initial decisions (accept, minor/major revision, reject)
    Feb. 15, 2019: ICDAR regular paper submission deadline
    Apr. 15, 2019: Submission deadline of the revised version of IJDAR papers.
    May 30, 2019: Final decisions (accept to journal track, or move to journal-only process).

 

  • Important Dates
    Nov. 15 Nov. 30, 2018: Initial Extended submission deadline
    Jan. 15, Jan. 30, 2019: Initial decisions (accept, minor/major revision, reject)
    Feb. 15, 2019: ICDAR regular paper submission deadline
    Apr. 15, 2019: Submission deadline of the revised version of IJDAR papers.
    May 30, 2019: Final decisions (accept to journal track, or move to journal-only process).

 

  • Editors
    This special issue is a joint initiative of the board of editors of IJDAR and the program chairs of ICDAR 2019.
    Andreas Dengel, Rafael Dueire Lins, Cheng-Lin Liu: Program Chairs of ICDAR 2019
    Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti, Simone Marinai: Editors-in-Chief of IJDAR
  • Q&A
    For any information about this initiative, please email one of the editors of this special issue or consult the FAQ that will be posted on the IJDAR website.Call for Papers PDF